Nigeria's dirty, filthy dirty. Worst poverty I've ever seen. AK-47 fights every other night or so. The bodies are off the street by 8am, usually. Makes it interesting when you have a 6am show time, lol . We stayed in a guarded residential area so we weren't in too much danger. Kind of like a minimum security prison. Armed guard to and from the airport (not sure if he had bullets or not) Every now and then we'd buy a clip from the local police and go blast away with their AKs in a lot across the street from our hotel. Good stress relief.

I've got a couple of good friends down there now. They're making it work. You have to find ways to occupy your time. They're not the safest operators but being the PIC helps. I wouldn't go down as an FO to a local captain. Bunch of chest pounding cowboys. They're the ones that keep making CNN. THey don't learn. If it came down to being the last possible job for me, I'd have to think hard.